Category Archives: Economics and the like

Cartoon: The Criminalizing Homelessness Cycle

Posted on November 23, 2024 by Ampersand

On Governing Magazine’s website, Thea Sebastian, Hanna Love and Tahir Duckett wrote: Criminalizing homelessness is bad financially and bad for public safety. Homelessness and incarceration have long been linked, as many people shuttle between jails, prisons, emergency rooms and the streets. … Continue reading →

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Cartoon: Announcing My New A.I. Comics Initiative!

Posted on August 15, 2024 by Ampersand

After I finished this cartoon, someone on Reddit asked me if one of my previous cartoons was drawn by A.I.. So just in case, I’ll clarify: This comic is not really drawn by A.I.. The news that inspired this comic: Colin … Continue reading →

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Cartoon: The Conservative Guide To Fighting Poverty

Posted on July 13, 2024 by Ampersand

This is another cartoon I made a two-minute timelapse video for. Making these videos is easy and I enjoy showing them to folks, so I’ll continue doing them now and then. Two things to watch out for in the timelapse … Continue reading →

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Cartoon: Free Trade Is For Peasants, Not Cartoonists!

Posted on March 19, 2024 by Ampersand

There’s something bizarrely fun about drawing myself as a cliche of a wealthy man. Although at the same time I was drawing this cartoon, I was also working on a still-to-come cartoon which also involves lots and lots of panels … Continue reading →

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Cartoon: The GOP Tax Policy Cycle!

Posted on October 24, 2023 by Ampersand

Bobby Kogen, at the Center for American Progress, writes: Long-term projections show that federal debt as a percentage of the U.S. economy is on a path to grow indefinitely… House Republican leaders have used this fact to call for spending … Continue reading →

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Cartoon: Self-Made Billionaire

Posted on September 15, 2023 by Ampersand

This feels like a very old-fashioned lefty cartoon to me; it’s super-didactic, reliant on labels, has no real punchline, and it’s less about telling a joke then it is about trying to illustrate a basic principal of lefty economics. Other … Continue reading →

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Cartoon: 5 Things Congress Says When It Plans To Cut Social Security | Patreon

Posted on August 19, 2023 by Ampersand

Drawing five random characters (or semi-random, in this case, since they all had to be plausibly the sort of person who could be in Congress and seeking to cut Social Security) is always fun. In this case, to make them … Continue reading →

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